The practitioners listed below are certified Focusing trainers, professionals and psychotherapists living or working in the New England region.

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Services: Focusing has enriched my life and I am passionate about sharing it with others. I offer all levels of training from beginner to certified Focusing Trainer or Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist. I offer workshops in Focusing for mental health and health care providers. I also offer guided Focusing sessions by telephone and in person. Additionally I have a private practice in psychotherapy for individuals and couples. My approach seems to help my clients to feel understood, to discover their resilience and to lead more fulfilling lives.

My therapy practice is located in Wellesley and Concord MA at the Psychotherapy Collaborative. For over 25 years I have worked with adults in individual therapy and have also run divorce support groups for men and women. As a Focusing oriented therapist I see how this mindful practice deepens the therapy process in gentle and respectful ways. Focusing teaches self compassion and patience as people work on difficult issues; they learn to attend to their body sense of a life situation which can open pathways for growth and change.

I enjoy teaching Focusing to small groups and to individuals for personal enrichment.

Services: I believe psychotherapy is a creative conversation that moves you in the direction of health, happiness and greater meaning in life. It can open up the potential for growth that already exists within you. I offer individual and couples therapy with a Focusing orientation for adults and adolescents, and individual Focusing training.

I offer private counseling at my Back Bay office for adults struggling with a loss (a job, a love, divorce, death, or other personal losses), places of unforgiveness, anxiety, or the changes and complexities of everyday life.

I believe we each hold the answers to our own questions and struggles, and you can find your healing answers through a compassionate therapeutic relationship that includes mind, body and body-sense.

I offer Psychotherapy, Coaching, and Supervision at my Creative Pathways Studio in Medford, MA., since 1989. I work with individuals, adults and children, and integrate the Focusing approach to the the medicinal power of the Arts. I have taught for 16 years at Lesley University in the Expressive Therapies Department. My life research involves how our creative intelligence accesses pathways to make positive changes for our heart and well-being, as well as for the well-being of others and our Earth.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist for more than 25 years and a certified Focusing-Oriented therapist for 10 years. In addition to using Focusing with my clients, I have also brought Focusing to cancer support groups at the Lahey Clinic as well as to their radiology and oncology staff. My particular areas of interest include grief, medical illness and end of life issues, trauma, women’s issues, relationship issues, and spirituality.I also offer focusing training sessions for individuals as well as for small groups (2-4).

Jing provides psychodynamic growth oriented sessions in person, via Skype, and phone, domestic and abroad. In her work, Jing combines Focusing techniques and the Healing Power of Unconditional Presence, as taught by John Welwood, based on Buddhist teachings and practice. Jing is also a long time practitioner of Insight Dialogue, as taught by Gregory Kramer. Jing is especially interested in working with challenges in interpersonal (including inter-racial) relationships, workplace conflicts, stress, anxiety, depression, cultural adjustment issues, and conundrums in personal development. Jing has been a Maine licensed Clinical Professional Counselor since 1998.

Certified as FOT in 2005. Studied TaiChi and ChiGong from a Chinese master and taught these for 10 years. For 20 years, daily meditation practice and yearly silent retreats with Buddhist studies have been pillars for personal and spiritual growth and professional work. Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution with dictatorship and constant political turmoil exposed Jing to human made disasters and suffering, and helped her understand human conditioning and potential for change.

Retired from a 20+ year psychotherapy practice at Southern New Hampshire Health Center, in which I used a wide array of interventions, especially Focusing, mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing. I am a certified Focusing Oriented Therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Buddhist meditation practices are an integral part of my personal life. While my license to practice is still from New Hampshire, I am in process of obtaining Maine licensure. Married almost 50 years, adult children, grandchildren! Loving new life on the Maine coast!

Carol is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Certified Focusing Teacher. She has worked in different agency settings with a variety of populations since getting her MSW in 1991. She works with all ages in her private practice on Cape Cod, which she started in 1995. Carol also teaches Level III Inner Relationship Focusing with Focusing resources, Berkeley CA. She stumbled upon Focusing in 2005 had has been practicing and teaching it since. Carol is in the process of growing her teaching services to the Cape Cod community and surrounding areas.

I believe change occurs in the context of a therapeutic relationship which is respectful, compassionate, caring, and interactive. By understanding and appreciating your strengths and your current ways of coping, listening with compassion and curiosity, challenging gently with humor and sensitivity, I will work collaboratively with you to help make your relationships more satisfying and your life choices more expansive.

Beilah Ross, LICSW, has been practicing Clinical Social Work for over 20 years and gained certification as a Focusing-Oriented therapist in 2009. She works in private practice with adults, couples and children, using Focusing and other experiential modalities to help her clients connect with body-centered wisdom. She teaches Focusing to individuals and groups through community workshops. She also runs workshops on healing inter-generational trauma using FOT and is interested in how Focusing with ancestors can support activism.

I help people to reconnect with the life they would like to live. Through getting in touch with their emotions and releasing them, they can find a fresh creative energy within. Most of my clients seek help with anxiety, excessive worries, depression, trauma, addiction or just a difficult relationship situation. I enjoy connecting with my clients and emphasize the power of a strong therapeutic relationship. I don’t promote “talking” therapy only. As a Focusing Certified Trainer I invite clients to feel their emotions directly in the body, to achieve a felt shift, relief and attunement with their intuition. “One step in the body is worth a thousand steps in the mind.” (Eugene Gendlin)

Joe Colletti is a Certified Focusing Trainer and a Board Member of the BioSpiritual Institute. He is recognized as an excellent educator having made presentations on BioSpiritual Focusing at the Spiritual Directors International (SDI) World Conference as well as the first BioSpiritual Focusing webinar sponsored by SDI. He offers a variety of Focusing education programs as weel as individual Focusing sessions.

Services: I teach levels one and two of Focusing. My other specialties include developmental intuition, inspired writing and reading, massage therapy and energetic and transpersonal psychotherapy/spirituality/meditation.

Focusing has enhanced the quality of my life — both personally and professionally. Since becoming certified in 2000, I have maintained a relationship with two Focusing partners, integrated Focusing into my psychotherapy practice and offered trainings to groups and individuals. While I am now retired and no longer provide psychotherapy, I am continuing my Focusing partnerships and offering Focusing support by phone or in person to individuals and small groups. I am willing to travel to assist with trainings in other areas of New England.

Services: I teach Focusing one-on-one or to groups in retreat settings and in consecutive classes for the general public as well as health professionals. All classes are designed to develop skills that meet your needs. I integrate Focusing in my Massage practice for interested clients and use it in my Interior Design business to listen collaboratively.

Focusing provides many wonderful benefits, but my favorite is Finding-Fresh-Air in difficult dilemmas. By using my felt-senses as my GPS, I can uncover my very own small steps forward to creative options that give me a renewed sense of hope and resiliency.

Perhaps you, too, would like to gently explore how to find clarity amid confusion, comfort amid heartache, or laughter amid misfortune? I can be your Focusing guide to more Fresh-Air inside. I hold most of my sessions on Zoom.

Paula, retired from a thirty-year career as a high school and college English teacher, has a doctorate in Creativity in Education from the University of Massachusetts.

Services: Finish your novel, set up your easel, find your authentic voice! I offer creativity coaching enhanced by Focusing techniques to writers and other creatives – professional to amateur – painter to poet. Together we will arrange for a comfortable combination of email, telephone, and face-to-face sessions to soften action blocks, clarify goals, and celebrate milestones. Give shape to your memoir, commit to a morning practice, solve the second act of your screenplay!

Services: I am passionate about Focusing and have more than six years of experience teaching individuals and groups how to Focus in a personalized format. I also co-teach Focusing-Oriented Spiritual Direction, Counseling and Pastoral Care with Joe Colletti and present specialized Focusing-oriented workshops that help people to integrate and gain perspective on applications for Focusing in daily life. Individual consultations are always welcome.

Services: Rosa offers personal growth and professional development groups for listeners (therapists, group facilitators, mediators, coaches) where we witness and support the on-going journey of listening more deeply to our own selves. These groups are based on the Heart IQ framework, and incorporate Focusing, Internal Family Systems, and Inner Empathy.

Professionally trained in organization development, Rosa offers workshops internationally in Dynamic Facilitation, an empathy-based approach for helping task groups engage creatively with complex issues. Practitioners with previous grounding in listening and awareness practices such as Focusing or NVC are especially well-positioned for learning to facilitate this work.

Rosa is also available to teach Focusing to individuals or small groups.

Services: As a caring and experienced psychologist, I offer a calming path to find relief and changes to move your life forward. With a Focusing approach, we will offer compassion and gentle attention to what is needed to feel better about yourself and your day-to-day life. Attention to positive as well as difficult parts of your life will deepen our perspective. Easing stress and increasing confidence often helps. Increasing comfort in your relationships is also important. Understanding how our past impacted you is important, but I am aware your goal is improving your life today. Clients appreciate my warmth, skills, encouragement, and humor. Please feel welcome to call and discuss beginning individual or couples therapy.

I have been a writer for 40 years and Focuser for most of that time. I am fascinated by the synergy of these two practices, which evoke one’s inner world in complementary ways. I am passionate about poetry and memoir writing; I published a book of poetry entitled I Should Praise in 2016. I am also the author of two nonfiction books, Breaking Through and Symptoms. I teach classes integrating Focusing with memoir writing and also Focusing and Tai Chi. I have presented workshops at the Arlington Center, and at international Focusing conferences in Switzerland, Great Britain, and Seattle, Washington.

I enjoy collaborating with people in the design and facilitation of exploratory “deep dives” in group settings to:-Engage social issues and collective healing (Social Alchemy),-Access expanded dimensions of experiencing through Focusing and other processes.

Since 1985, I have trained in practices that encourage individual and collective emergence including Focusing, NVC, Integral Theory, Dynamic Facilitation, Open Dialogue, and Systemic Constellations.

I seek ways to bring together the energy and commitment of activists, the guidance and sensitivity of intuitives, and paradigms and processes from various healing traditions, to help us engage the intense challenges of our times.

PLEASE NOTE

Focusing New England is a blog maintained by a group of individual practitioners who each maintain their own individual private practices. The practitioners listed on this website do not monitor, and are not responsible or liable for, the groups, events or other practitioners referenced on this site. This website contains contact information for certified Focusing practitioners and Focusing events for informational purposes only.